s of the delegates who signed
the constitution: GEO. WASHINGTON, _President, and deputy from
Virginia_. _New Hampshire_--John Langdon, Nicholas Gilman.
_Massachusetts_--Nathaniel Gorham, Rufus King. _Connecticut_--William
Samuel Johnson, Roger Sherman. _New York_--Alexander Hamilton. _New
Jersey_--William Livingston, David Brearly, William Paterson, Jonathan
Dayton. _Pennsylvania_--Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Mifflin, Robert
Morris, George Clymer, Thomas Fitzsimons, Jared Ingersoll, James
Wilson, Gouverneur Morris. _Delaware_--George Reed, Gunning Bedford,
Jr., John Dickinson, Richard Bassett, Jacob Broom. _Maryland_--James
M'Henry, Daniel of St. Thomas Jenifer, Daniel Carroll. _Virginia_--John
Blair, James Madison, Jr. _North Carolina_--William Blount, Richard
Dobbs Spaight, Hugh Williamson. _South Carolina_--John Rutledge, Charles
C. Pinckney, Charles Pinckney, Pierce Butler. _Georgia_--William Few,
Abraham Baldwin. _Attest_: William Jackson, _Secretary_.

CHAPTER VII.

THE CONSTITUTION SUBMITTED TO THE STATE LEGISLATURES--THE GREAT
CONFLICT OF OPINIONS--WASHINGTON'S LETTERS TO MRS. GRAHAM AND
LAFAYETTE ON THE SUBJECT--HAMILTON PREPARES FOR THE BATTLE--HIS
PRELIMINARY REMARKS--OPPOSITION TO THE CONSTITUTION--_THE
FEDERALIST_--STORMY DEBATES IN STATE CONVENTIONS--RATIFICATION OF
THE CONSTITUTION--MEASURES FOR ESTABLISHING THE NEW
GOVERNMENT--WASHINGTON'S THANKFULNESS FOR THE RESULT--WASHINGTON
SPONTANEOUSLY NOMINATED FOR THE PRESIDENCY--HIS GREAT RELUCTANCE TO
ENTER UPON PUBLIC LIFE AGAIN--LETTERS TO HIS FRIENDS ON THE
SUBJECT--WASHINGTON ELECTED PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED
STATES--PREPARATIONS FOR LEAVING HOME--VISIT TO, AND PARTING WITH
HIS MOTHER--HIS JOURNEY TO THE SEAT OF GOVERNMENT LIKE A TRIUMPHAL
PROCESSION--HONORS BY THE WAY--ARRIVAL AND RECEPTION AT NEW
YORK--HIS SENSE OF RESPONSIBILITY.

The Congress, on the twenty-eighth of September, unanimously resolved to
send the constitution adopted by the convention, and the accompanying
letters, to the legislatures of the several states, and to recommend
them to call conventions within their respective jurisdictions to
consider it. And it was agreed, that when nine of the thirteen states
should ratify it, it should become the fundamental law of the republic.

And now commenced the first great and general conflict of political
opinions since the establishment of the independence of the United
States; and i